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An Imperfect House of Staunton Walnut and Maple Classical Tiroir Chessboard-this board is crafted from Walnut (dark squares) and Maple (light squares) and features storage drawers underneath the board.

For your purchasing consideration....
An Imperfect House of Staunton Walnut and Maple Classical Tiroir Chessboard-this board is crafted from Walnut (dark squares) and Maple (light squares) and features storage drawers underneath the board.

For your purchasing consideration....
An Imperfect House of Staunton Walnut and Maple Classical Tiroir Chessboard-this board is crafted from Walnut (dark squares) and Maple (light squares) and features storage drawers underneath the board.

For your purchasing consideration....
An Imperfect House of Staunton Walnut and Maple Classical Tiroir Chessboard-this board is crafted from Walnut (dark squares) and Maple (light squares) and features storage drawers underneath the board.

For your purchasing consideration....
An Imperfect House of Staunton Walnut and Maple Classical Tiroir Chessboard-this board is crafted from Walnut (dark squares) and Maple (light squares) and features storage drawers underneath the board.

The Chess Players is a historical novel based on the life of Paul Morphy, who is considered to have been the first world chess champion and possibly the strongest chess player in the history of the game. Paul Charles Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in New Orleans Louisiana. His father was Alonzo Morphy. His mother was Louise Thérèse Felicite Thelcide Le Carpentier. He learned the moves of chess simply by watching his uncle and father play. Nobody taught him the rules. By age 9 he was regarded as the best player in New Orleans. By age 21 he was regarded as the best chess player in the world.

Crafted in Europe, the African Palisander & Ash Wooden Tournament Chessboard features African Palisander (dark) and Ash (light) squares with a African Palisander frame. This Chessboard is 0.5" thick, has a satin finish, has the House of Staunton logo silk-screened on the h1 square and has the Rank and File Labels that make it an excellent training tool.

DGT bluetooth electronic chess boards are accurate and fast chess move input devices for your computer. For official tournament use, club use or home use, DGT offers the perfect e-Boards.
USB e-Boards are for individual use at home, club or school. Connect a single board to the PC via Bluetooth. The boards are supplied with all accessories in a nice gift box.

Handcrafted in the United States, we are proud to offer this Signature Traditional Chessboard for your consideration. This solid wood chess board features Padauk (dark) and Curly Maple (light) squares with beautiful Padauk Frame.

Aron Nimzowitsch is one of the most important figures in chess history. He was one of the World's strongest players and contributed enormously to the development of chess both through his games and his writings, which influenced many grandmasters who followed him. In this book, Steve Giddins selects and studies his favourite games by Nimzowitsch and examines Nimzowitsch's skills in the vital areas of attack, defence, strategy and endgame play. He demonstrates how we can all improve by learning from Nimzowitsch's masterpieces.

The March 2015 issue of Chess Life is here! It's Cover Story is on the how Dr. Mark Andersen is using chess to help the Native American community. It also features stories on the upcoming 2015 US Chess Championship, the National K-12 Championship and the College Chess Pan-Ams.

Handcrafted in the United States, we are proud to offer this Signature Traditional Chessboard for your consideration. This solid wood chess board features Cocobolo (dark) and Curly Maple (light) squares with beautiful Cocobolo Frame.

Handcrafted in the United States, we are proud to offer this Signature Traditional Chessboard for your consideration. This solid wood chess board features Cocobolo (dark) and Curly Maple (light) squares with beautiful Mahogany Frame.

The House of Staunton is proud to offer an exact reproduction of the English Circa 1800 Series pieces. It features a 4.75" King with a 1.7" diameter base. The Chess pieces are hand carved by our master artisans and crafted out of the highest grade woods. The Chess pieces are weighted with luxurious billiard cloth base pads and a beautiful finish

The House of Staunton is proud to offer the finest set of bone chess pieces that we've ever produced - the Monmouth Bone Luxury Chess pieces. It features a 4.0" King with a 1.5" diameter base. The Chess pieces are hand carved by our master artisans and crafted out of the highest camel bone. The Chess pieces are naturally weighted with luxurious billiard cloth base pads and a beautiful finish.

Handcrafted in the United States, we are proud to offer this Signature Traditional Chessboard for your consideration. This solid wood chess board features Cocobolo (dark) and Curly Maple (light) squares with beautiful Mahogany Frame.

Handcrafted in the United States, we are proud to offer this Signature Traditional Chessboard for your consideration. This solid wood chess board features Padauk (dark) and Curly Maple (light) squares with beautiful Mahogany Frame.

Handcrafted in the United States, we are proud to offer this Signature Traditional Chessboard for your consideration. This solid wood chess board features Purpleheart (dark) and Curly Maple (light) squares with beautiful Curly Maple Frame.

The Sicilian Defence is Black’s most popular reply to 1.e4. Most Black players hope for an Open Sicilian, seeking unbalanced positions and opportunities to play for a win. No wonder that in roughly one-third of the games White does not play 2.Nf3 and chooses one of numerous ‘Anti-Sicilian’ lines. Ranging from primitive and aggressive to respected but tedious, these Anti-Sicilians have one thing in common: they all cross Black's plans and steer for territories where it is easy to get ambushed. Evgeny Sveshnikov offers help. The world-famous Sicilian expert tackles these annoying lines one by one. With great ingenuity he presents a watertight repertoire that consists of practical and effective opening ideas.

NIC Yearbook 113 - PAPERBACK EDITION Fabiano Caruana Squeezes a Win Out of a Stone in the Petroff

Catalog Code: B0113PYB

New in Chess Yearbook is the #1 guide to Chess Opening news! It is published four times per year, ensuring the most up-to-date and topic chess opening information. It includes 25-30 surveys per issue, covering all of the fashionable lines, wild gambits and even forgotten variations! If you're serious about chess, you need New in Chess Yearbooks!

NIC Yearbook 113 - HARDCOVER EDITION Fabiano Caruana Squeezes a Win Out of a Stone in the Petroff

Catalog Code: B0113HYB

New in Chess Yearbook is the #1 guide to Chess Opening news! It is published four times per year, ensuring the most up-to-date and topic chess opening information. It includes 25-30 surveys per issue, covering all of the fashionable lines, wild gambits and even forgotten variations! If you're serious about chess, you need New in Chess Yearbooks!

New In Chess Magazine - Issue 2014/8 Alexander Grischuk - Will He Be The Next Challenger?

Catalog Code: NIC1408

New in Chess is the magazine of choice for serious Chess players. If it is happening in Chess, you'll read about it in New in Chess Magazine. It features On the spot tournament reports, in-depth interviews with top players, comprehensive analysis

The House of Staunton is proud to offer the Aversa Series Chess set. A full tournament-sized Chess set, it features a 4.0" King with a 1.875" diameter base. The Chess pieces are hand carved by our master artisans and crafted out of the highest grade woods. The Chess pieces are heavily weighted with luxurious billiard cloth base pads and a beautiful finish.

The Meran Variation in the Semi-Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5) is a s trategically and dynamically complex opening full of tactical possibilities. And this DVD provides you with a comprehensive overview of typical tactical patterns for both sides. Positional concepts are also explained. In interactive format IM Robert Ris offers you a lot of exercises, including hints and advice that help you to know key tactical patterns of this variation to play it with success. The DVD is a must for those who want to learn more about this opening, and a pleasure for those who enjoy razor sharp battles of the world’s greatest players!

Modern tournament practice has virtually surpassed the so-called "opening theory". Thanks to a wealth of tournament games some openings and lines develop so rapidly that even the ambitious amateur has difficulties to keep his own repertoire updated. But experts help. Ex- FIDE-World Champion Rustam Kasimzhanov is considered to be one of the leading experts in the field of opening preparation. In three World Championship matches he was second of Viswanathan Anand and helped him to successfully defend the title. And with Kasimdzhanov’s help and excellent opening preparation the German team surprisingly became European Team Champion 2011. On this DVD Kasimdzhanov presents highly topical openings and shows their current state of "theory". From the perspective of a top player he explains why certain openings are played while others more or less vanished from tournament practice. This DVD helps you to remain up-to-date in a number of important and popular openings and provides you with many ideas for your own repertoire.

This Slav DVD is a complete opening repertoire for black after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6. GM Nick Pert has played the Slav defence for over 10 years and provides all his la test and most up to date analysis crammed into 1 DVD. Nick has spent man y hours studying the best Slav lines, and he explains his favourite variations in this DVD. In addition t o the usual video explanations of the French there are some interactive clips where the viewer is tested on a range of theoretical questions and tactics arising from Slav games.

The information explosion has led to a massive increase in opening theory. But how often do you win a game with a prepared line? What gives strong players the edge over their opponents is not some blockbuster novelty, but a deep understanding of the pawn structures to which their openings lead – an understanding that lasts into the middlegame and endgame, and is transferable between different openings with similar structures. In this DVD, Sam Collins examines the Isolated Queen’s Pawn (IQP) and associated structures. Using games almost exclusively from grandmaster praxis in the last two years, Collins explains all of the major ideas for playing with and against the IQP, including the d5-advance, kingside attacks (including the rook lift, h4-h5 and Bxh6 sacrifices), central sacrifices (including the Rxe6 exchange sacrifice in various positions from the Petroff), queenside play and simplification, and gives some guidance on how to assess transpositions into related structures.The universality of the IQP is illustrated by the games on this DVD, played in openings as diverse as the Nimzo Indian, Queen’s Gambit Accepted, Semi-Tarrasch, Caro-Kann, Slav, c3-Sicilian, French Tarrasch, Bogo Indian and Petroff. A final section of questions and answers (in Chessbase’s new interactive format) tests and reinforces the reader’s knowledge of the IQP, one of the most important structures in modern chess.

“Players die, tournaments are forgotten, but the works of great artists are left behind them to live on forever.“ - Mikhail Tal's amazing moves have the power to enlighten both the heart and soul of any chess player. Like the paintings of a master or the timbre of a symphony, amazing chess moves can appeal to players in a wholly aesthetic way. This interactive DVD guides the viewer through some of the most beautiful and amazing chess moves in early to modern chess. The interactive format encourages the viewer to study and find the brilliancy, following the footsteps of some of the greatest players of the game. Moves taken from openings, middlegames and endgames are looked at. They contain tactical brilliancies alongside heuristic violations, material sacrifice and positional shockers. Can you think like one of the old legends of chess or indeed like one of the new geniuses?

This DVD provides you with a repertoire of attacking lines against: The Scandinavian, Alekhine’s Defence, The Petroff, The Philidor, The Pirc, The Modern Defence (1. e4 g6). Many of these openings are very popular in club chess, yet they are often underestimated by players of the white pieces. Using his wealth of experience playing with 1 e4, Grandmaster Daniel King explains the openings and provides you with an aggressive system against each of them. This is the second part of Daniel King’s project ‘Attack with 1 e4’ (part I dealt with the Sicilian, the French, The Caro Kann and 1...e5). King’s recommendations aim to put your opponent under pressure right from the start of the game, and when players are under pressure, mistakes occur. This is a practical repertoire – if we study openings we want to be sure to use them in our games. After just a few moves, you will be dictating play.

The Junior chess is a smaller version of the Royal set. The size of its folding case is 42x21cm instead of 54x27cm. The chessmen with burned ornaments are made from hornbeam and sycamore wood and they are weighted. The additional ornaments have been burned on the dark squares of the board. The burned folding chess board has an insert tray for the chess pieces storage inside. This set is available in various colours.

The Ambassador chess has been the most popular set from our decorative range. Thanks to its larger size and a unique design it is considered as a deluxe chess set. Lovely chessmen are made from hornbeam and sycamore wood. Like the chess board they have burned ornaments. The burned folding chess board has an insert tray for the chess pieces inside.

The folding chess board of the Consul set resembles the one of the Ambassador set. However the chessmen are of a Staunton design and they are weighted and made from hornbeam wood. The folding chess board has an insert tray for the chess pieces storage inside. This set is available in brown colour only.

H.O. from ND writes, "Received my beautiful ebonized Winsor chess set today. It is awesome. A work of art I will treasure & play with. I can't wait to save up enough for my House of Staunton chess board."

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Welcome to the official website of House of Staunton, The House of Staunton has firmly established itself as the gold standard by which all chess pieces, chess sets and chess boards are judged. All of our luxury chess products, including our chess pieces, chess sets and chess boards, have been produced with the discerning chess collector in mind. We adhere to the highest quality standards and our master artisans handcraft our chess sets, chess pieces and chess boards out of such luxurious materials as Porcelain, Camel Bone, Genuine Ebony, Walnut Burl and fossilized 40,000 year-old Wooly Mammoth Ivory. We invite you to indulge yourself and discover what countless other Chess enthusiasts know - The House of Staunton offers the finest Chess pieces, chess sets and chess boards - bar none!

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